Comments on: Five Years of Real Estate Blogging http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: downtownenvy http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29241 downtownenvy Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:35:07 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29241 Jim, After four years, you are still one of my favorite daily blogs. I check in every day, and I feel like I learn something new from you even after all this time. I appreciate the time you take to research and prepare your entries, and I am sure that even after I finally buy a home I will still stop in every day to see what's up at realcentralva! Congrats on the 5 years from a grateful reader. Jim,
After four years, you are still one of my favorite daily blogs. I check in every day, and I feel like I learn something new from you even after all this time. I appreciate the time you take to research and prepare your entries, and I am sure that even after I finally buy a home I will still stop in every day to see what’s up at realcentralva! Congrats on the 5 years from a grateful reader.

]]> By: Matthew Rathbun http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29237 Matthew Rathbun Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:32:52 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29237 Jim, You may have learned from your experiences, but you've taught far more. Thanks for breaking the ground in this fantastic means of engagements! We also appreciate your leadership in the industry and look forward to following you in the future! Jim,

You may have learned from your experiences, but you’ve taught far more. Thanks for breaking the ground in this fantastic means of engagements!

We also appreciate your leadership in the industry and look forward to following you in the future!

]]> By: michael guthrie http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29235 michael guthrie Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:24:10 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29235 At the risk of building up someone else's brand :), thank you for leading the way for the rest of us. Your insights help your clients for sure but they also help our association in our quest to serve our members in the best way we can. Whether we agree (mostly) or disagree (sometimes), the conversation helps me continue to run a company that is all about allowing individual agents build their businesses their way and serving them in whatever way we can. It has also helped me do a better job as president of our local association. BTW--I still think you would be in the business even without the blog. :) At the risk of building up someone else’s brand :) , thank you for leading the way for the rest of us. Your insights help your clients for sure but they also help our association in our quest to serve our members in the best way we can. Whether we agree (mostly) or disagree (sometimes), the conversation helps me continue to run a company that is all about allowing individual agents build their businesses their way and serving them in whatever way we can. It has also helped me do a better job as president of our local association. BTW–I still think you would be in the business even without the blog. :)

]]> By: Jim Duncan http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29234 Jim Duncan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:35:47 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29234 Heather and Ines - Thanks, and I look to both of you for inspiration.For that, I thank <i>you</i>. Jeffrey - Thanks and it was good meeting you too. As I said this morning on Facebook: <blockquote>Jim Duncan Heading to Richmond this morning for an Agency workgroup. I have remarkably low expectations for progress. Status Quo is powerful, persistent and paid.</blockquote> I have a business to run, bills to pay and clients to serve. I don't have the luxury of time to negotiate with the "big boys" in hallways and such. I'm doing what I can through my business and through the core values of our brokerage, Nest Realty insofar as we are leading by example - we don't do single agent dual agency. I like to think of it as a strategic retreat ... more to come. Heather and Ines – Thanks, and I look to both of you for inspiration.For that, I thank you.

Jeffrey –

Thanks and it was good meeting you too. As I said this morning on Facebook:

Jim Duncan Heading to Richmond this morning for an Agency workgroup. I have remarkably low expectations for progress. Status Quo is powerful, persistent and paid.

I have a business to run, bills to pay and clients to serve. I don’t have the luxury of time to negotiate with the “big boys” in hallways and such. I’m doing what I can through my business and through the core values of our brokerage, Nest Realty insofar as we are leading by example – we don’t do single agent dual agency.

I like to think of it as a strategic retreat … more to come.

]]> By: Ines http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29233 Ines Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:05:49 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29233 Congrats!! you are pure awesome and many of us look up to you - thanks for setting such a great example. Congrats!! you are pure awesome and many of us look up to you – thanks for setting such a great example.

]]> By: Jeffrey Douglass http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29231 Jeffrey Douglass Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:50:09 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29231 Jim, Just a quick congratulations to your 5 years of hard word. I have been reading you over the last few years and you have been an inspiration to me. I was happy to meet you briefly while you were in San Diego at BarCamp. I'm sorry to see you give up on your fight against single agent dual agency - but you hit the nail on the head with there is too much vested legacy in keeping it going - keep up the good fight and offer those consumers a better option. Best wishes for 2010 and I look forward to more solid content and inspiration. Jim,

Just a quick congratulations to your 5 years of hard word. I have been reading you over the last few years and you have been an inspiration to me. I was happy to meet you briefly while you were in San Diego at BarCamp.

I’m sorry to see you give up on your fight against single agent dual agency – but you hit the nail on the head with there is too much vested legacy in keeping it going – keep up the good fight and offer those consumers a better option.

Best wishes for 2010 and I look forward to more solid content and inspiration.

]]> By: Heather Elias http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29230 Heather Elias Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:49:26 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2010/01/05/five-years/#comment-29230 Congrats on the five year mark! You are an inspiration as a writer and as a professional, too. Here's to even more success in the future! Congrats on the five year mark! You are an inspiration as a writer and as a professional, too. Here’s to even more success in the future!

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